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A very good and important article!
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The main presentation by this [start new-window link here] Father [Christian] Troll http://www.sankt-georgen.de/lehrende/troll.html was very interesting. He based it on a Pakistani Muslim scholar [named] Rashan, who was at the University of Chicago for many years, and Rashan's position was Islam can enter into dialogue with modernity, but only if it radically reinterprets the Koran, and takes the specific legislation of the Koran, like cutting off your hand if you're a thief, or being able to have four wives, or whatever, and takes the principles behind those specific pieces of legislation for the 7th century of Arabia, and now applies them, and modifies them, for a new society [in] which women are now respected for their full dignity, where democracy's important, religious freedom's important, and so on. And if Islam does that, then it will be able to enter into real dialogue and live together with other religions and other kinds of cultures.
And immediately the holy father, in his beautiful calm but clear way, said, well, there's a fundamental problem with that because, he said, in the Islamic tradition, God has given His word to Mohammed, but it's an eternal word. It's not Mohammed's word. It's there for eternity the way it is. There's no possibility of adapting it or interpreting it, whereas in Christianity, and Judaism, the dynamism's completely different, that God has worked through his creatures [emphasis added].
I read this article and think it is too pessimistic. Islam is all about submission and mankind being no better than animals, when it comes to self-determination. Women must cover themselves because men have no capacity to overcome temptation, i.e. they must submit to divinely chosen leaders because they are merely animals.
Yet, in voting and choosing leaders, suddenly they DO have a stake in life. Yes, the results are frightening because they are choosing radical fundamentalists, but when these beasts actually start implementing sharia, they will be overthrown. Too much internet and news is available to put the genie back in the bottle. Remember, it took 1300 years for Christianity to overcome divine monarchy, and Islam is about that age now.
WOSG is correct that the man Mohammed must be dethroned.